Recall of MPs Bill

My Lords, my noble friend may be helpful in his concluding remarks, but I think that these are te...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing the Bill so clearly. Like him, I look forward to h...

My Lords, as the noble Baroness knows, I share a large number of her concerns, not least on some ...

Has the noble Lord asked some of his colleagues on that committee in the Commons what actually ha...

I totally understand the point made by the noble Lord but that does not mean, of course, that the...

My Lords, I would like to welcome the Bill, but I cannot. While I support much of what is in trig...

My Lords, the history of this place and the solemn, central role that it fulfils bring a profound...

My Lords, I welcome the maiden speech by the noble Lord, Lord Cooper of Windrush, who has a consi...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend of many years. He reminded us of the mission...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. I am sure that he would not wish to mislead the House. The Secon...

I think that, not for the first time, the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, is rewriting the procedures of ...

My Lords, like everyone else who has spoken in the debate, I support the principle of recall of M...

My Lords, a provision for a recall of elected representatives is used by a number of nations but ...

My Lords, before I come to the substance of what I want to say, I will comment briefly on what th...

My whole point is that such a provision would raise the bar that would have to be overcome before...

I am afraid that if it is simply a matter of collecting signatures, I am not sure whether that pr...

My Lords, the Bill is what might be called a delayed knee-jerk reaction. Shocked to their respect...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow my noble friend, who has accurately put his finger on the we...

My Lords, I have the greatest possible reservations about the Bill. In his opening remarks my nob...

My Lords, I begin by offering my congratulations, too, as one relatively new Member of the House ...

My Lords, like others, I have severe reservations about the Bill. I say that as an ex-MP but also...

There is another scenario in which the Committee decides on nine days, but a political majority i...

My noble friend has more experience of this than I have, but he is absolutely right, of course. I...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in the Second Reading debate today. I am sorry ...

My Lords, this has been a very impassioned debate in many ways. On the question of how many elect...

What about the two Liberal elections in 1910? The noble Lord presumably now feels that there shou...

My Lords, I was not involved in that election; perhaps the noble Lord was. However, I have to adm...

Can I take it from that that the Government still have not decided whether they want an open or s...

My Lords, unavoidably, as the noble Baroness has said, this has to be partly a public process. On...

The noble Lord said that the petition wording had been developed in consultation with the Elector...

Officials are now arranging the use and testing of the wording of the petition and are in contact...

My Lords, I raised the question of Phil Woolas and the election court. Is that what the noble Lor...

I would say simply that under this Bill, if a recall petition is successful, the sitting MP will ...

My point is that we now have two different systems—the system in the Bill and the system in the e...

I think I hear the noble Lord considering an amendment in Committee on that question. Again, we a...

In the light of a number of contributions today referring to the difficulties that will arise in ...

My Lords, I will consider that but I am not going to give any commitment on the Floor. Indeed, th...

I can assure the noble Lord—I think this applies to everyone—that it is not about doubting the co...

My Lords, I take that point.

The noble Lord, Lord Grocott—the Earl of Grocott, as I shall a...

Perhaps I can nip this in the bud. If the noble Lord insists on referring to me as Earl Grocott, ...

I thank the noble Lord.

The noble Lords, Lord Grocott and Lord Hughes, said that we should ...